Month: April 2015
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TEDxSantaCruz, part of Alumni Weekend, to explore “Radical Collaboration”
By Dan White, UCSC Newscenter Expect a day of unexpected convergences, wild ideas, and surprising discoveries at TEDxSantaCruz 2015: Radical Collaboration, a time to explore interdisciplinary learning and across-the-lanes thinking. The all-day event, which starts at 9 a.m. on April 24 at the Rio Theatre, will feature a line-up of speakers from a wide variety of disciplines challenging themselves, casting…
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Optimized protocol for simple extraction of high quality genomic DNA from Clostridium difficile for whole genome sequencing
Abstract: Successful sequencing of Clostridium difficile genome requires high-quality genomic DNA (gDNA) as starting material. gDNA extraction using conventional methods is laborious. We describe an optimized method for simple extraction of C. difficile gDNA using QIAamp DNA Mini Kit, which yielded high-quality sequence reads on the Illumina Miseq platform. Read the full research article
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Biologist Beth Shapiro explains the science of ‘de-extinction’ in new book.
By Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz Public Information Office Tired of answering questions about cloning mammoths, Beth Shapiro, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, wrote a book called How to Clone a Mammoth. (Spoiler Alert: You can’t actually clone a mammoth.) Shapiro is a leading authority on ancient DNA–how to recover…